City Of God Social Perspective

Social perspective is a key tool used to identify and recognize conformities as well as discrepancies within a culture. Society enforces actions within different cultures that influence their actions, opinions, and beliefs. First, in Chapter Eleven, Pierre Bourdieu examines different perspectives and aesthetic tastes in photography. Second, in Chapter Thirty-two, Mary Ann Doane elaborates on racial and sexual differences in the cinema. Finally, a journal by Felicia Chan, and Valentina Vitali, the authors examine how the film, City of God, entices audiences to view something that is considered “non-pleasurable”. Bourdieu examines the social relevance within cultures, and the two aesthetic tastes embedded within photography. In Chapter Eleven, Bourdieu initiates the chapter disputing that statement, “Any work of art reflects the personality of its creator” (Bourdieu, 1999). Bourdieu states that the camera is unable to interpret what the artist intends to shoot. Rather he …show more content…
The social benefit from providing an insight into these areas within the movie is that the intended people that are able to create changes view the film, and are moved. The authors discuss the director’s skills at the filming of different shots, which attempts to stimulate sensors and intellectual levels. “Sensory (auditory) skills, here requires acculturation, in the sense of the whole set of intellectual (or mental), socially informed and historically shaped capacities” (Chan, 2010). The storyline itself attempts to evoke identification with the characters, and portray a universal meaning. Two boys born in the slums, and both are guided into different directions in their adult life. The character, “Rocket” is portrayed in a way that viewers empathize with his story. His story transforms from a child born on the wrong side of the tracks, to a professional photographer. The authors also discuss the chicken in the beginning and the end of the film as a